March 10, 2025 • 17 mins
Join us for a reflective conversation on the critical importance of the friends we choose to keep in our lives. We dive deep into how friendships can impact our decisions—positively or negatively—and the ways they shape our well-being. The discussion unfolds through personal stories and examples, such as the consequences of hanging out with individuals who frequently engage in reckless behavior. We highlight the need for mindfulness in relationships, stressing that the company we keep not only reflects our values but also influences our behaviors and decisions.
A telling narrative about a potential friendship becomes a catalyst for a broader exploration of the implications of social circles. As the host recounts experiences of contemplating friendships with individuals embroiled in risky habits, the message becomes crystal clear: the people we associate with can have a significant influence on our life paths.
We also talk about the positive turnaround sparked by surrounding oneself with motivated individuals aiming for personal growth, drawing on past experiences to underscore this point. In addition, there's insight into maintaining boundaries with toxic family members and how such dynamics can affect our mental health.
Ultimately, this episode serves as a gentle reminder for you to reflect on your relationships, encouraging engagements that foster positivity and well-being. Tune in for engaging stories, thought-provoking insights, and advice on navigating your social circles wisely! Don’t forget to subscribe, share, and check out our website for more resources!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi everyone.
Is it weird that I'm going tobe looking at you sideways if
you're hanging out with someweird friends or characters?
Welcome back to MentalHealth-ish.
So I was recently talking tosomeone who I won't say any
names, but obviously, but youknow, you have acquaintances,
sometimes people that you talkto online or people that you
(00:22):
just kind of know in a way.
But anywho, I was talking tosomeone that I kind of I
wouldn't say considered a friend, but someone that maybe I had
thought about maybe beingfriends with.
Like you know, when you meetsomeone and you're kind of like
this person's pretty cool orlike I could see myself being
friends with this person, orwhatever that kind of thing.
(00:43):
So we're not at the friendshiplevel yet, but you're kind of
just like, oh, I like thisperson.
But anyhow, upon talking to thisperson for like a few times,
obviously we've talked aboutstories, things come up right or
whatever, and I noticed thatshe's always talking about this
one friend that she hangs outwith whatever.
(01:04):
And I noticed that she's alwaystalking about this one friend
that she hangs out with whatever.
And usually all of the storiesthat are told when she's talking
about this friend involveeither like party drinking, like
(01:25):
getting super, super drunk,like had me kind of thinking a
bit like does her friend have adrinking problem?
Like just because she putsherself in these situations,
right, where she's just likeconstantly drinking a lot and,
um, things are happening to like, you know, she'll wake up with
bruises or you, you know almostbeing kidnapped, robbed, like
(01:46):
that kind of stuff, that kind ofsituation.
So we're not just talking about, okay, you go out and you go to
a bar or whatever, likepartying, you go have a few
drinks, like which is fine, likethere's nothing wrong with that
.
I'm talking about just constantlike shit happening, if you
know what I mean, like nextlevel type of stuff, and
obviously like sometimes, likethis person that I'm talking to
(02:09):
will be involved in these thingsright to like just getting
drunk and like not making thebest decisions, things like that
.
And, mind you, these people,people are like in their fifties
, like mid to late forties, sothey're older, you older, things
like that.
Not to judge, obviously, this isjust my thoughts, not trying to
(02:30):
judge anyone or anything, andso, yeah, the last time that I
kind of heard his story, it justreally had me thinking and
thinking about this person kindof differently, because I'm like
why are you hanging out withthis type of person and getting
yourself into these stickysituations and like making bad
(02:51):
decisions?
Like I've never heard apositive story from you being
around this person, like it'susually okay, you guys are drunk
and then something bad happens,or you guys are kind of putting
yourself in these badsituations, right.
So I had me thinking.
At that point I was like Idon't know if I would want to be
(03:13):
friends with this personanymore or if I'm interested in
being friends with this personLike number one.
Like I just can't relate.
Like I guess I don't reallydrink as much anymore, like I'm
not a party person, I'm a mom,maybe I'm just boring, I don't
know.
But even if I was, I don't knowthat I would want to be
(03:34):
associated or be doing that typeof stuff.
I don't know.
Let me know what your thoughtsare on this or like if you kind
of understand where I'm kind ofgetting at.
But yeah, I guess what I'mtrying to say is like be careful
who you surround yourself withand who you have in your social
circles, because you just neverknow the collateral or
(03:57):
secondhand damage that can comewith that and if you have
someone in mind as you'relistening to this, or you kind
of have a friend where you'rejust kind of questioning,
sometimes, like the things thatthey're doing or the situations
that you're being put into andthings like that, maybe it's
time to reconsider thefriendship or maybe talking,
(04:18):
talk to that person about thethings that they're doing.
But, yeah, just be mindful ofwho you're spending your time
with, because the people that wespend most of our time with and
our friends or whatever, likethey, could have a big influence
on our own thoughts and our ownbehaviors and our own well
being, right, especially, ifwe're putting ourselves in these
(04:40):
like dangerous situations, thenthat and this is just one
example, obviously like thestory that I'm sharing, but
there's so many other things,right, but yeah, we're putting
ourselves constantly in thesesituations where we're maybe
drinking a lot and then we'renot remembering the next day,
and like we're putting ourselvesin dangerous situations where
(05:00):
we're just not fully awarewhat's going on and it's just
constantly Like you got to kindof question your relationships
at that point, like, is this apositive, healthy relationship
for me or is it not?
You know, but that just had methinking of this person
differently.
So now it had me thinking aboutmyself like and just in general
(05:21):
.
Like whoever you hang out with,like people are going to
associate you with that type ofperson and that person's
behaviors, that person'severything you know, like
motivation levels, whatever.
If someone asks you for areference, are you going to
(05:46):
provide a reference for someonethat maybe isn't a good worker
or you know there's justsomething that they wouldn't be,
you know, compatible with, withwherever you work or whatever
you know, like I don't know ifthat makes sense, but even with
that, like you're not going torefer someone to your job that
isn't going to make you lookgood, right, like you're not
going to want someone that'sgoing to make you look bad.
So I think, with friendshipsand the people that we surround
(06:09):
ourselves, like it's the sameexact thing is, people are going
to judge you or look at youdifferently based on who you
surround yourself with, and so,yeah, I think that was just
something that I startedthinking about this week and,
yeah, like just trying to bemore cautious with I guess.
(06:31):
So, yeah, the people that youhang out with, the people that
are in your circle, are going tohave an impact on yourself as
well and the things that you doso obviously, like if you're
hanging out with someone thatlikes to party and it's just
drinking every day and youconsider that person a friend,
is that going to influence you,you know, to start drinking more
(06:53):
or whatever the case may be?
And so sometimes the peoplethat we surround ourselves can
influence the things that we dowithout even realizing it, while
at the same time, on the otherside of things, like if we
surround ourselves with positivepeople in our lives, then that
can also influence our life in apositive way as well.
(07:16):
So encouraging growth right,making healthy choices, things
like that, which reminds me.
So going related to the storythat I just remembered and I
always think about this is whenI was going to college, I never
crossed my mind to get amaster's degree, to go to
(07:37):
graduate school.
I was just going to get mybachelor's degree.
I got my bachelor's degree insociology and then that's it.
I really didn't have any planson what I was going to do after
getting my degree or going tocollege.
I just kind of started going, Iguess, to college.
I started off with communitycollege and then I transferred
(07:58):
over to get a four-yearuniversity to get my degree, and
so I never even thought aboutgraduate school or anything or
my master's.
But when I was at Cal Poly,which is where I got my
bachelor's degree in sociology,like I said, I decided to join
the sociology club, not thinkingmuch of it, like I said,
(08:21):
because I didn't plan on goingto graduate school.
I didn't know what I was goingto do.
I think I just kind of joinedlike just because I was so
interested in sociology and theclasses were just so good and so
interesting and I reallyenjoyed learning about it.
So I think that's really whatmotivated me to join this club.
So once I was in that club Istarted meeting other students
(08:44):
right that were in the club too,and talking to people and
making friends.
A lot of the students that werein that club joined the club
because they wanted to go tograduate school after receiving
their bachelor's, like when theygraduated.
They wanted to go to get theirmaster's after.
And so when you're trying toapply to get your master's
(09:06):
degree and go on to, you know, agraduate school program, you
usually want to make yourapplication look good and you
want to make yourself stand outright.
And so a lot of times peoplewill join clubs and sometimes
even like join the club's boardright, like become maybe like
club president, vice president,you know, etc.
So people do a lot ofextracurricular activities
(09:29):
because they want to go tograduate school after and they
want their application to lookgood, they want to stand out and
things like that.
And so I started meeting a lotof people that were going to go
to graduate school after, whichwas something that I never
thought about.
And so halfway into mybachelor's degree program, I
(09:50):
started looking into and beingpart of this club as well.
We had people come on,professionals, come in and speak
to us, right, like what arethings you could do with this
degree, etc.
My horizons started kind ofexpanding.
I was kind of becoming curious.
(10:11):
I started becoming interested,like okay, like what am I going
to do after graduation?
Like what do I want to do?
And I started thinking aboutthat and I decided that I wanted
to go to graduate school andget my master's degree in social
work.
And at that time I was doing itbecause I was like I want to
help other people, like that'sthe type of work that I want to
do, and getting my master's insocial work is going to just
(10:33):
like open up so many doors andthere's going to be so many
opportunities.
You know things like that.
So I decided that I was goingto apply to graduate school.
So, yeah, I started hanging outwith, like these people.
We had common goals, you know,we were all working towards
something.
We all wanted to go to graduateschool.
I ended up, like, applying tograduate school and whatever you
(10:54):
know, if you follow me, youknow I ended up going to USC and
I got my, my master's degreeand even through that, through
that whole process of applyingto graduate school, I talked to
a lot of friends about it.
I had people to look over myapplication, things like that.
And so that's just anotherexample of what I'm talking
about.
If you know, whoever yousurround yourself with is going
(11:15):
to have a big impact on yourselfand on your own thoughts, on
your own behaviors, on thethings that you do like for
yourself in your own life,whatever like that's going to
have a really big impact.
And so, yeah, just rememberingto think about the people that
you surround yourself with rightnow and are these, like you
(11:38):
know, just kind of think aboutit, not saying, you know, cut
people off and end friendshipsor whatever, but just kind of be
mindful of the people that youconsider friends or that you
hang out with and how thosefriendships or those people
affect you.
And I think this also goes withfamily, right.
Like if you have a familymember or family members who are
(11:59):
very toxic and very negative,like, how is that affecting you
as a person?
Because our relationships canaffect our mood, our self-esteem
, and so by surroundingourselves with, like, supportive
, uplifting individuals, likethat's going to help also
increase, like our happiness.
Right, it's going to help usfeel more positive, feel just
(12:22):
good, right, when we'resurrounding ourselves with good
people, as compared to if you'resurrounding yourself with
negative people, or if you'resurrounding yourself with
negative people or if you're intoxic relationships, like that's
going to lead to stress andanxiety.
Right, surrounding yourself withpeople that have similar goals
and values can help you increaseyour motivation and
(12:44):
accountability, can help youwith reaching those goals, right
, and my example, right, likegoing to graduate school and
surrounding myself with peoplethat had the same goal, like
that kind of helped guide me andhelp get me to where I wanted
to be, right, and yeah, so justI thought that was just
something interesting that Inoticed and wanted to talk about
(13:05):
is kind of like be mindful ofwho you surround yourself with
and surrounding yourself withpositive friends, encouraging
people just all the way around,just remembering how much our
relationships affect ourpersonal lives.
On a more personal level, and Idon't know, I'm in my mid 30s
(13:33):
and I'm just not a party personeither way, so I can't even
imagine myself getting to thatpoint where I'm just like
partying every day, drinkingwhatever and I'm not saying
there's anything wrong with it,because it is okay to go out
sometimes and blow off somesteam and be good, right, have
fun with friends, but reallythink about if this is happening
(13:54):
every day and if you're puttingyourself in danger constantly
with these persons or people orwhatever like.
Is that really a healthyrelationship and is that good
you know, know for you ingeneral?
Um, but yeah, I just thoughtit's something interesting and
something that I wanted toremind you all of is just um,
(14:17):
yeah, just be careful who youhang out with.
Be careful and really thinkabout it, and people might judge
you.
People might be looking at yousideways or just kind of
thinking of you differentlybased on the people that you
hang out with, and I am notjudging, but it just made me
look at this person differently,kind of you know, and, yeah,
(14:40):
just started just made mequestion things right for real.
So, yeah, let me know what youguys think and if you guys could
relate to what I'm talkingabout, remember to like,
subscribe and check out mywebsite, mentalhealthishcom,
where you could find all of mymental health blogs and all of
the past podcast episodes.
Yeah, I'm really excited to justrecord today.
(15:02):
I feel like it's if you followme on Instagram, you've seen
that I have not posted anythingthis week because I literally
been so busy with work and yeah,I don't know if it's I don't
know, I don't know what's goingon, if it's like the weather
changed but there has been justso many calls.
It's been so busy at work.
I've had to make like two CPSreports.
(15:25):
I had to make one elder abusereport.
Like it's just been crazy, andso I'm really happy that I'm
finally sitting down recordingthis.
Also, I did upload the lastepisode on the Mental Healthish
YouTube.
So, yes, there is a YouTube forMental Healthish.
I've had some people requestvideos, which I thought was cool
(15:45):
, because I actually likewatching videos too and I do
watch like a lot of podcastvideos on YouTube and stuff.
So I was like, oh, I didn likewatching videos too and I do
watch like a lot of podcastvideos on YouTube and stuff.
So I was like, oh, I didn'tthink of that, but I did upload
a video for the last episode soyou could search that.
All the links for all of thesethings are in my bio on my
Instagram.
I think that's just the easiestway I could tell you guys where
to find it.
(16:05):
My Instagram is Zuppysue, so inmy bio I have my all my links
on there.
So I think that would be theeasiest way to find all of these
links and websites that I'mtalking about.
But, yeah, I hope thateveryone's been great.
Spring break is coming up and,after much planning, like, we're
going to be going to Vegas, butno, not that kind of Vegas trip
(16:28):
.
I'm not going to be partying ordrinking.
I'm going to be going with Emmaand we're going to be doing
just a lot of fun familyactivities, and so I'm really
excited for that and I'm excitedI'm going to try to blog and
record some videos so that youguys could see on our YouTube.
But yeah, if you've listened upto this point, thank you so
much.
(16:48):
And, yeah, remember to like,subscribe and share this and let
me know what your thoughts areon today's episode.
And remember to surroundyourself with good people.
That's all I'm going to say,but thank you guys.
Talk to you soon.
Hi everyone.
Is it weird that I'm going tobe looking at you sideways if
you're hanging out with someweird friends or characters?
Welcome back to MentalHealth-ish.
So I was recently talking tosomeone who I won't say any
names, but obviously, but youknow, you have acquaintances,
sometimes people that you talkto online or people that you
(00:22):
just kind of know in a way.
But anywho, I was talking tosomeone that I kind of I
wouldn't say considered a friend, but someone that maybe I had
thought about maybe beingfriends with.
Like you know, when you meetsomeone and you're kind of like
this person's pretty cool orlike I could see myself being
friends with this person, orwhatever that kind of thing.
(00:43):
So we're not at the friendshiplevel yet, but you're kind of
just like, oh, I like thisperson.
But anyhow, upon talking to thisperson for like a few times,
obviously we've talked aboutstories, things come up right or
whatever, and I noticed thatshe's always talking about this
one friend that she hangs outwith whatever.
(01:04):
And I noticed that she's alwaystalking about this one friend
that she hangs out with whatever.
And usually all of the storiesthat are told when she's talking
about this friend involveeither like party drinking, like
(01:25):
getting super, super drunk,like had me kind of thinking a
bit like does her friend have adrinking problem?
Like just because she putsherself in these situations,
right, where she's just likeconstantly drinking a lot and,
um, things are happening to like, you know, she'll wake up with
bruises or you, you know almostbeing kidnapped, robbed, like
(01:46):
that kind of stuff, that kind ofsituation.
So we're not just talking about, okay, you go out and you go to
a bar or whatever, likepartying, you go have a few
drinks, like which is fine, likethere's nothing wrong with that
.
I'm talking about just constantlike shit happening, if you
know what I mean, like nextlevel type of stuff, and
obviously like sometimes, likethis person that I'm talking to
(02:09):
will be involved in these thingsright to like just getting
drunk and like not making thebest decisions, things like that
.
And, mind you, these people,people are like in their fifties
, like mid to late forties, sothey're older, you older, things
like that.
Not to judge, obviously, this isjust my thoughts, not trying to
(02:30):
judge anyone or anything, andso, yeah, the last time that I
kind of heard his story, it justreally had me thinking and
thinking about this person kindof differently, because I'm like
why are you hanging out withthis type of person and getting
yourself into these stickysituations and like making bad
(02:51):
decisions?
Like I've never heard apositive story from you being
around this person, like it'susually okay, you guys are drunk
and then something bad happens,or you guys are kind of putting
yourself in these badsituations, right.
So I had me thinking.
At that point I was like Idon't know if I would want to be
(03:13):
friends with this personanymore or if I'm interested in
being friends with this personLike number one.
Like I just can't relate.
Like I guess I don't reallydrink as much anymore, like I'm
not a party person, I'm a mom,maybe I'm just boring, I don't
know.
But even if I was, I don't knowthat I would want to be
(03:34):
associated or be doing that typeof stuff.
I don't know.
Let me know what your thoughtsare on this or like if you kind
of understand where I'm kind ofgetting at.
But yeah, I guess what I'mtrying to say is like be careful
who you surround yourself withand who you have in your social
circles, because you just neverknow the collateral or
(03:57):
secondhand damage that can comewith that and if you have
someone in mind as you'relistening to this, or you kind
of have a friend where you'rejust kind of questioning,
sometimes, like the things thatthey're doing or the situations
that you're being put into andthings like that, maybe it's
time to reconsider thefriendship or maybe talking,
(04:18):
talk to that person about thethings that they're doing.
But, yeah, just be mindful ofwho you're spending your time
with, because the people that wespend most of our time with and
our friends or whatever, likethey, could have a big influence
on our own thoughts and our ownbehaviors and our own well
being, right, especially, ifwe're putting ourselves in these
(04:40):
like dangerous situations, thenthat and this is just one
example, obviously like thestory that I'm sharing, but
there's so many other things,right, but yeah, we're putting
ourselves constantly in thesesituations where we're maybe
drinking a lot and then we'renot remembering the next day,
and like we're putting ourselvesin dangerous situations where
(05:00):
we're just not fully awarewhat's going on and it's just
constantly Like you got to kindof question your relationships
at that point, like, is this apositive, healthy relationship
for me or is it not?
You know, but that just had methinking of this person
differently.
So now it had me thinking aboutmyself like and just in general
(05:21):
.
Like whoever you hang out with,like people are going to
associate you with that type ofperson and that person's
behaviors, that person'severything you know, like
motivation levels, whatever.
If someone asks you for areference, are you going to
(05:46):
provide a reference for someonethat maybe isn't a good worker
or you know there's justsomething that they wouldn't be,
you know, compatible with, withwherever you work or whatever
you know, like I don't know ifthat makes sense, but even with
that, like you're not going torefer someone to your job that
isn't going to make you lookgood, right, like you're not
going to want someone that'sgoing to make you look bad.
So I think, with friendshipsand the people that we surround
(06:09):
ourselves, like it's the sameexact thing is, people are going
to judge you or look at youdifferently based on who you
surround yourself with, and so,yeah, I think that was just
something that I startedthinking about this week and,
yeah, like just trying to bemore cautious with I guess.
(06:31):
So, yeah, the people that youhang out with, the people that
are in your circle, are going tohave an impact on yourself as
well and the things that you doso obviously, like if you're
hanging out with someone thatlikes to party and it's just
drinking every day and youconsider that person a friend,
is that going to influence you,you know, to start drinking more
(06:53):
or whatever the case may be?
And so sometimes the peoplethat we surround ourselves can
influence the things that we dowithout even realizing it, while
at the same time, on the otherside of things, like if we
surround ourselves with positivepeople in our lives, then that
can also influence our life in apositive way as well.
(07:16):
So encouraging growth right,making healthy choices, things
like that, which reminds me.
So going related to the storythat I just remembered and I
always think about this is whenI was going to college, I never
crossed my mind to get amaster's degree, to go to
(07:37):
graduate school.
I was just going to get mybachelor's degree.
I got my bachelor's degree insociology and then that's it.
I really didn't have any planson what I was going to do after
getting my degree or going tocollege.
I just kind of started going, Iguess, to college.
I started off with communitycollege and then I transferred
(07:58):
over to get a four-yearuniversity to get my degree, and
so I never even thought aboutgraduate school or anything or
my master's.
But when I was at Cal Poly,which is where I got my
bachelor's degree in sociology,like I said, I decided to join
the sociology club, not thinkingmuch of it, like I said,
(08:21):
because I didn't plan on goingto graduate school.
I didn't know what I was goingto do.
I think I just kind of joinedlike just because I was so
interested in sociology and theclasses were just so good and so
interesting and I reallyenjoyed learning about it.
So I think that's really whatmotivated me to join this club.
So once I was in that club Istarted meeting other students
(08:44):
right that were in the club too,and talking to people and
making friends.
A lot of the students that werein that club joined the club
because they wanted to go tograduate school after receiving
their bachelor's, like when theygraduated.
They wanted to go to get theirmaster's after.
And so when you're trying toapply to get your master's
(09:06):
degree and go on to, you know, agraduate school program, you
usually want to make yourapplication look good and you
want to make yourself stand outright.
And so a lot of times peoplewill join clubs and sometimes
even like join the club's boardright, like become maybe like
club president, vice president,you know, etc.
So people do a lot ofextracurricular activities
(09:29):
because they want to go tograduate school after and they
want their application to lookgood, they want to stand out and
things like that.
And so I started meeting a lotof people that were going to go
to graduate school after, whichwas something that I never
thought about.
And so halfway into mybachelor's degree program, I
(09:50):
started looking into and beingpart of this club as well.
We had people come on,professionals, come in and speak
to us, right, like what arethings you could do with this
degree, etc.
My horizons started kind ofexpanding.
I was kind of becoming curious.
(10:11):
I started becoming interested,like okay, like what am I going
to do after graduation?
Like what do I want to do?
And I started thinking aboutthat and I decided that I wanted
to go to graduate school andget my master's degree in social
work.
And at that time I was doing itbecause I was like I want to
help other people, like that'sthe type of work that I want to
do, and getting my master's insocial work is going to just
(10:33):
like open up so many doors andthere's going to be so many
opportunities.
You know things like that.
So I decided that I was goingto apply to graduate school.
So, yeah, I started hanging outwith, like these people.
We had common goals, you know,we were all working towards
something.
We all wanted to go to graduateschool.
I ended up, like, applying tograduate school and whatever you
(10:54):
know, if you follow me, youknow I ended up going to USC and
I got my, my master's degreeand even through that, through
that whole process of applyingto graduate school, I talked to
a lot of friends about it.
I had people to look over myapplication, things like that.
And so that's just anotherexample of what I'm talking
about.
If you know, whoever yousurround yourself with is going
(11:15):
to have a big impact on yourselfand on your own thoughts, on
your own behaviors, on thethings that you do like for
yourself in your own life,whatever like that's going to
have a really big impact.
And so, yeah, just rememberingto think about the people that
you surround yourself with rightnow and are these, like you
(11:38):
know, just kind of think aboutit, not saying, you know, cut
people off and end friendshipsor whatever, but just kind of be
mindful of the people that youconsider friends or that you
hang out with and how thosefriendships or those people
affect you.
And I think this also goes withfamily, right.
Like if you have a familymember or family members who are
(11:59):
very toxic and very negative,like, how is that affecting you
as a person?
Because our relationships canaffect our mood, our self-esteem
, and so by surroundingourselves with, like, supportive
, uplifting individuals, likethat's going to help also
increase, like our happiness.
Right, it's going to help usfeel more positive, feel just
(12:22):
good, right, when we'resurrounding ourselves with good
people, as compared to if you'resurrounding yourself with
negative people, or if you'resurrounding yourself with
negative people or if you're intoxic relationships, like that's
going to lead to stress andanxiety.
Right, surrounding yourself withpeople that have similar goals
and values can help you increaseyour motivation and
(12:44):
accountability, can help youwith reaching those goals, right
, and my example, right, likegoing to graduate school and
surrounding myself with peoplethat had the same goal, like
that kind of helped guide me andhelp get me to where I wanted
to be, right, and yeah, so justI thought that was just
something interesting that Inoticed and wanted to talk about
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is kind of like be mindful ofwho you surround yourself with
and surrounding yourself withpositive friends, encouraging
people just all the way around,just remembering how much our
relationships affect ourpersonal lives.
On a more personal level, and Idon't know, I'm in my mid 30s
(13:33):
and I'm just not a party personeither way, so I can't even
imagine myself getting to thatpoint where I'm just like
partying every day, drinkingwhatever and I'm not saying
there's anything wrong with it,because it is okay to go out
sometimes and blow off somesteam and be good, right, have
fun with friends, but reallythink about if this is happening
(13:54):
every day and if you're puttingyourself in danger constantly
with these persons or people orwhatever like.
Is that really a healthyrelationship and is that good
you know, know for you ingeneral?
Um, but yeah, I just thoughtit's something interesting and
something that I wanted toremind you all of is just um,
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yeah, just be careful who youhang out with.
Be careful and really thinkabout it, and people might judge
you.
People might be looking at yousideways or just kind of
thinking of you differentlybased on the people that you
hang out with, and I am notjudging, but it just made me
look at this person differently,kind of you know, and, yeah,
(14:40):
just started just made mequestion things right for real.
So, yeah, let me know what youguys think and if you guys could
relate to what I'm talkingabout, remember to like,
subscribe and check out mywebsite, mentalhealthishcom,
where you could find all of mymental health blogs and all of
the past podcast episodes.
Yeah, I'm really excited to justrecord today.
(15:02):
I feel like it's if you followme on Instagram, you've seen
that I have not posted anythingthis week because I literally
been so busy with work and yeah,I don't know if it's I don't
know, I don't know what's goingon, if it's like the weather
changed but there has been justso many calls.
It's been so busy at work.
I've had to make like two CPSreports.
(15:25):
I had to make one elder abusereport.
Like it's just been crazy, andso I'm really happy that I'm
finally sitting down recordingthis.
Also, I did upload the lastepisode on the Mental Healthish
YouTube.
So, yes, there is a YouTube forMental Healthish.
I've had some people requestvideos, which I thought was cool
(15:45):
, because I actually likewatching videos too and I do
watch like a lot of podcastvideos on YouTube and stuff.
So I was like, oh, I didn likewatching videos too and I do
watch like a lot of podcastvideos on YouTube and stuff.
So I was like, oh, I didn'tthink of that, but I did upload
a video for the last episode soyou could search that.
All the links for all of thesethings are in my bio on my
Instagram.
I think that's just the easiestway I could tell you guys where
to find it.
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My Instagram is Zuppysue, so inmy bio I have my all my links
on there.
So I think that would be theeasiest way to find all of these
links and websites that I'mtalking about.
But, yeah, I hope thateveryone's been great.
Spring break is coming up and,after much planning, like, we're
going to be going to Vegas, butno, not that kind of Vegas trip
(16:28):
.
I'm not going to be partying ordrinking.
I'm going to be going with Emmaand we're going to be doing
just a lot of fun familyactivities, and so I'm really
excited for that and I'm excitedI'm going to try to blog and
record some videos so that youguys could see on our YouTube.
But yeah, if you've listened upto this point, thank you so
much.
(16:48):
And, yeah, remember to like,subscribe and share this and let
me know what your thoughts areon today's episode.
And remember to surroundyourself with good people.
That's all I'm going to say,but thank you guys.
Talk to you soon.
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